Most controls training stops at "here's a rung." The plant floor doesn't.
The Controls Floor is where technicians and students learn PLCs, HMIs and fault-finding the way the work really happens, with AI as a co-pilot and a simulated plant you can break without consequences.
I'm Markus, a mechatronics and controls tech. I've used Claude to write and import working programs in Ladder, FBD, SCL, STL and GRAPH, then run them against a virtual factory. Here you'll see how, step by step.
What's inside (free):
• Weekly fault-finding challenges on a simulated line
• Short build videos: AI writes it, we test it, we break it, we fix it
• The exact prompts I use
• Help from people who do this for a living
Vendors: Siemens TIA Portal first, then Rockwell, CODESYS, Ignition and Factory I/O.
House rule: simulation only. We never connect AI to a live machine, and we never let AI write safety logic.